More materials for common use

[Sasza22]

Certain structures require a specific material to construct like transparent (glass or diamond), insulator (ceramic, insulation, refined carbon*, depleted uranium*) or plastic (plastic or visco gel*). Those applications have a limited selection of materials often having weaknesses like low melting points or low availability. I think some of those should be expanded to include other properties and other ways to obtain them.

*some of those are impractical or unusable outside specific objects

Glass kiln has a lot of space for other recipies. We could easily get smoked glass with some refined carbon addition or uranium glass that emits extra light. Maybe a special recipie for ultratransparent glass Letting 100% light through with some oxygen or maybe lime. Anti rad glass, bunker glass there is a lot of possiblities. Stuff like ice could be used for glass tiles as well if the temperature is low enough.

Some extra insulators would be nice. Not only for that once specific use that requires it (spaceship nosecone) but general for some base insulation instead of using igneous or mafic when ceramic is too expensive. Like imagine crushing lumber into someting like plywood so it can be used for regular building like tiles and pipes. Stuff like glass fiber or carbon fiber composites would be cool as well but it would need an extra building to make those.

Plastic could really use an alternative with a higher melting point. Rubber would be a good candidate. We already got sulfur but using isoresin would be too expensive. Maybe we could get some sort of tree sap from arbor trees and use that (i imagine a sap extractor replacing one of the branches). Pumping it into a polymer press would create rubber(would be more accurate if it required sulfur too but oh well). Maybe using visco gel into the press could create a special high temperature plastic (someting around 500 C) for special transit tube usage.

Also carbon fiber i mentioned earlier could be nice as a replacement for steel in bunker tiles. Would be a less conductive alternative. It should require isoresin to make though so it remains hard to get.